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Photographs and text capture the dramatic changes the earth has undergone over the last century, with paired images depicting various locations around the world that have been drastically altered by climate change, industrialization, natural disasters, and urban movement.

The author describes the five months he spent working with scientist Bill Fraser's team in Antarctica to study Adv?lie penguins and discusses his observations on the rising temperatures in the region in the early twenty-first century and how this could impact the rest of the world.

Presents twenty-four articles that provide opposing viewpoints on issues related to the environment, debating whether there is an environmental crisis, pollution prevention measures, the impact of the American lifestyle, and American environmental policy.

Examines the world's ecosystem maintaining that human abuse to the environment is causing such irreparable damage that the planet may not be habitable in the future.

Details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature.

Contains sixteen essays that provide varying perspectives on the issue of how America's wilderness lands should be managed, discussing roadless rules, wildfire policy, oil and gas drilling, logging, and other topics.

Presents a five-volume series to environmental science for youth and young adult that contains over five hundred images, timelines, organizations and agencies, and over one hundred activities for students on topics such as earth systems, energy, environment, and creating a sustainable society.

Contains case studies that describe the causes and consequences of some of the world's worst human-induced environmental disasters, including coal mining tragedies, dam failures, industrial explosions, government actions, oil spills, terrorist acts, and industrial and residential toxic poisonings.

Humans are not the only ones who inhabit cities. While we might immediately think of pets, rats, or mice, Downer looks at the urban lives of raccoons, mountain lions, crows, coyotes, flying foxes, turtles, and gators.